-----Original Message----- From: Greg Ransom <gregransom at HOME.COM> To: HAYEK-L at MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <HAYEK-L at MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Date: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:47 PM Subject: [HAYEK-L:] Sciabarra Seminar -- Total Freedom available from Laissez Faire Books
>Sciabarra Seminar, Feb. 26 - March 11
>
>Chris Sciabarra's Hayek-L seminar on his recent book _Total Freedom:
>Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism_ begins Feb. 26. Sciabarra's book
>is available at significant discount from Laissez Faire Books at:
>
> http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=PP8310&aid=10097
>
>
>Book Description:
>An effort to reclaim dialectics as a viable methodology for libertarian
>social theory. Building upon his previous books about Marx, Hayek, and
Rand,
>Total Freedom completes what Lingua Franca has called Sciabarra’s "epic
>scholarly quest" to reclaim dialectics, usually associated with the Marxian
>left, as a methodology that can revivify libertarian thought. Part One
>surveys the history of dialectics from the ancient Greeks through the
>Austrian school of economics. Part Two investigates in detail the work of
>Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian, in whose thought Sciabarra
>finds both dialectical and nondialectical elements. Ultimately, Sciabarra
>aims for a dialectical-libertarian synthesis, highlighting the need (not
>sufficiently recognized in liberalism) to think of the "totality" of
>interconnections in a dynamic system as the way to ensure human freedom
>while avoiding "totalitarianism" (such as resulted from Marxism).
>
>From the Author:
>"TOTAL FREEDOM completes the "Dialectics and Liberty" trilogy that began
>with MARX, HAYEK, AND UTOPIA (SUNY, 1995), and AYN RAND: THE RUSSIAN
RADICAL
>(Penn State Press, 1995). The trilogy entails a re-reading of intellectual
>history; it focuses on the Aristotelian roots and nature of dialectics and
>its relationship to radical theory. More importantly, it highlights the use
>of dialectical method by classical liberals and libertarians who have been
>constructing a non-Marxist radicalism, one that recognizes the dynamic
>interrelationships between the personal and the political, the
>psychological, ethical, cultural, and economic. Ultimately, it provides a
>foundation for libertarian social theory, one that stresses the necessity
of
>context -- the "totality" of systemic and dynamic connections among social
>problems (hence, "total") that beckon toward fundamentally libertarian
>solutions (hence, "freedom")."
>
>Peter Boettke:
>"TOTAL FREEDOM is a first-rate contribution to social theory and the
>enduring political project of a free and humane society."
>
>Don Lavoi:
>"TOTAL FREEDOM offers . . . a profoundly radical social perspective . . . a
>bold successor to Marxian radicalism . . . Its scholarship is
>extraordinary."
>
>Bertell Ollman:
>"Total Freedom offers a convincing demonstation of how crucial a role
>dialectics has played in the work of many of our greatest philosophers. No
>one interested in dialectics — or in the problems of change and interaction
>on which it centers—can afford to miss Sciabarra’s scholarly and
>surprisingly lucid history of dialectical thinking."
>
>Barbara Branden:
>"Chris Sciabarra’s Total Freedom is an astonishing work, astonishing in the
>depth and breadth of its scholarship, in its evidence of the use of the
>dialectic process by philosophers such as Aristotle, in its discovery of
>dialectics in the work of economists such as Murray Rothbard, and—most of
>all—in the first-handedness of its author. Unlike so many other scholars
and
>historians, Sciabarra looks at the history of philosophy through his own
>eyes and his own understanding. As a result, this beautifully and clearly
>written book will make the reader reexamine the history of philosophy and
>the history of dialectics by means of a new epistemological perspective:
the
>perspective of dialectics. Total Freedom is a landmark in philosophical
>studies and interpretation."
>
>Nathaniel Branden:
>"In a lucid, scholarily, and daringly original exercise in truly
independent
>thinking, Chris Sciabarra reclaims the concept of dialectics and makes its
>methodology the foundation for a radical defense of 'the libertarian
>vision.' In his originality, Sciabarra is a man ahead of his time. He
>stimulates us with fresh and provocative perspectives, and challenges us to
>join him at the intellectual heights he so persuasively traverses. Must
>reading for all those committed to the ideal of a truly free society."
>
>About the Author:
>Chris Matthew Sciabarra is Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics
of
>New York University. He is the author of Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY,
>1995) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State, 1995) and co-editor of
>Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State, 1999). He also edits The
>Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.
>
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>
>Greg Ransom, Hayek-L list host
>gregransom at home.com
>
>
>The Hayek Center & the Hayek-L list are pleased to be Laissez Faire Books
>Associates.
>